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Ain't nuthin like ridin' a finehorse in a new country- Augustus McCrae – Lonesome Dove

Thursday, April 19, 2012

About Farah~

Farah enjoying pasture time at the GFTF

I haven't written anything about Farah for a long while now. I've not been able to ride her either - so maybe that's why... Dean has recommended no riding until the leg is completely covered with new hair - no bald patches, no scabs etc.

At this point - all seems to be good news. There are only four dime sized scabs left, all toward the top of the white sock. The rest have fallen off & new hair is finally growing! There's no heat or swelling either - a welcome improvement.

Since rumor had it that my little "sweetheart" had become something of a witch with a "B"- & - we actually had enough dry weather that things outside weren't soaking wet - she has been allowed time in the pasture! Polito is careful to lightly wrap the leg to keep it completely dry. If she could talk - she would tell you how happy she is!

When I arrived today, her tail was up over her back & she was prancing & talking to the horses on the other side of the fence. She saw me pull up & how nice to have her come over to say "Hi"! She's such a "people" horse & I love it when she wraps her neck around me & gives me a big horsey "hug" :-) She consumed the dandelions I pulled for her faster than I could pull them :-)

Winter's light gold coat has almost completely disappeared, with the dark golden brown taking over. Soon, soon now - I might be back to re-conditioning my "retirement" ride! :-)

Albert Borgmann, Crossing the Postmodern Divide, 1992

You cannot remain unmoved by the gentleness and conformation of a well-bred and well-trained horse -- more than a thousand pounds of big-boned, well-muscled animal, slick of coat & sweet of smell, obedient and mannerly, and yet forever a menace with it's innocent power and ineradicable inclination to seek refuge in flight, and always a burden with its need to be fed, wormed, and shod, with its liability to cuts and infections, to laming and heaves. But when it greets you with a nicker, nuzzles your chest, and regards you with a large and liquid eye, the question of where you want to be and what you want to do had been answered.

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I enjoy riding whenever & wherever I can, then blogging about it!Time with our grand-kids tops my list - the gift of old age! Of course anything about horses, Photography, the Great Outdoors, never-ending work of keeping up a woodland garden & Washington Native Plant promotion are a few of my personal interests.